This week, Insider reported they received information from Ukraine’s military intel chief that a coup to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin is underway. What’s more, Major General Kyrylo Budanov told Sky News that this coup is “impossible to stop.” Certainly, all of the elements are in place for a coup…

Not since the end of World War II has one nation lost so many senior military leaders in such a short amount of time. The Ukraine Ministry of Defense reports the number of Russian generals killed at 12. However, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier said this…

More than 70 days into what historians will one day call “Putin’s folly”, Russia’s disastrous war of choice in Ukraine is not going well — for Russia. In what was supposed to be a three-day “special military operation” to overthrow the legitimate Ukrainian government, the Russian military has now lost…

Growing up in the 1980s, I watched my dad and grandpa attempt to build a bomb shelter in our Dallas, Texas backyard. Having just watched “The Day After”, a low budget (but effective) fictional depiction of a nuclear apocalypse in the American heartland, they endeavored to protect the family from…

Could they even get close? I think it’s safe to say that a state of war exists between the Russian Federation and the sovereign country of Ukraine. Putin’s attempts to classify the conflict as a “Special Military Operation” sounds a little like President Truman’s classification of the Korean War as…

Technically, we’re all dying — some faster than others. So where does legacy fit in? A strange thing happened when I turned 40 — I started having thoughts about legacy that I had never had before. …

From the mighty Soviet bear that kept countless NATO generals up at night during the Cold War, to today’s demoralized, poorly equipped, hollow shell with nuclear weapons, how did western military planners get Russia so wrong? I’ll admit it… I was shocked. I believed the hype. After more than a…

Today’s Russian army is the successor of the formidable Red Army; the very same Red Army that defeated the Third Reich and kept American generals up at night during the Cold War. But, oh, how the mighty have fallen. According to the Washington Post, Russia has lost more than 2,000…

Wouldn’t you rather play a nice game of chess? Later. Let’s play Global Thermonuclear War. It might surprise some, but many professional warfighters in the U.S. military have a distaste for nuclear weapons. After all, something that can kill so indiscriminately is patently offensive to the increasingly surgical capabilities found…